Botticelli August 2023

2 was Isabella Rossellini.

DQ: real?

IQs:

  1. Did you repeatedly get thrown in jail for throwing bricks at a cat.
  2. Are you given credit along with Joesph Raphson in the name of a method to find points where a function has a value of zero?
  3. According to song, will I see you in my dreams after repeatedly wishing you good night.

IQs:
1. Did you have a hit with “Fancy”?
2. Were you Blackbeard’s second-in-command?
3. Is your work spoofed here?

#1 was Inch High, Private Eye.
#2 is correct.
#3 is Impulse.

DQs:

  1. Male?
  2. Last name starts with I?

Previous IQs:

Did Ray Bradbury combine your name with others in a short-story title? - Icarus, in “Icarus Montgolfier Wright” about the joys of flight and exploration
Were you Elendil’s eldest son? - Yes, Isildur, the lunkhead
Were you a grumpy fictional resident of New Orleans? - Ignatius Reilly, in John Kennedy Toole’s A Confederacy of Dunces

Two DQs reserved.

IQs:

Were you Sid Caesar’s frequent female foil?
Were you perhaps the greatest British engineer ever?
As a young Boy Scout, did you have an adventure on a train?

  1. I am not Ignatz.
  2. Yeah, a really got no clue.
  3. I am not Irene.
  1. I am not Iggy Azalea, nor am I up here wit’ some change to throw.
  2. Arrggh, which I don’t know the cove, shipmate.
  3. I am not Isaac Asimov.
  1. I am not Imogene Coco.
  2. I am not Isambard Kingdom Brunel, and both James Watt and Thomas Telford would like to have a word with you.
  3. I am not Indiana Jones, and I did not acquire a bullwhip, fedora, and scar aboard that train.

DQs:

  1. Real.
  2. Male.
  3. First name starts with “I”.
  1. Was Isaac Newton of the Newton-Rhapson method.

Other two are correct.

DQ: Known for the arts?

IQs:

  1. Did Gilbert Gottfried voice you in the animated version, but not the live-action version of a Disney movie?
  2. Did you write Come Back, Little Sheba?
  3. Did you win an Oscar for your performance in Gaslight?
  1. I am not Iago.
  2. Dunno. DQ.
  3. I am not Ingrid Bergman (?).

DQs:

  1. Real.
  2. Male.
  3. First name starts with “I”.
  4. Not known for the arts.

2 (Blackbeard’s first mate) was Israel Hands.

DQ: living?

Swept me!

Previous DQs:

American?
Political/military?

IQs:

Were you shown in a Disney cartoon as being very thin and very hungry?
Did you originally create that character?
Did you play a bureaucrat, an emperor, an android and a burglar?

Correct, William Inge, Correct.

1 DQ reserved.

IQs:
1. Do you pal around with Mr. Fantastic, the Thing, and the Human Torch?
2. Were you a Texan philanthropist with (depending on how one pronounces it) an unflattering name?
3. Were you Llewyn Davis in Inside Llewyn Davis?

  1. I am not Ichabod Crane.
  2. I continue to fail to be Washington Irving.
  3. I am not … Oscar Isaacs?
  1. I am not Sue Storm, the Invisible Girl.
  2. I am not Ima Hogg.
  3. No clue. DQ.

DQs:

  1. Real.
  2. Male.
  3. First name starts with “I”.
  4. Not known for the arts.
  5. Dead.
  6. Not American.
  7. Secondarily known for politics/military.

3 was Oscar Isaac.

DQ: died after 1900?

DQs:

  1. Real.
  2. Male.
  3. First name starts with “I”.
  4. Not known for the arts.
  5. Dead.
  6. Not American.
  7. Secondarily known for politics/military.
  8. Died before 1900.

Previous IQs:

Were you shown in a Disney cartoon as being very thin and very hungry? - Yes, Ichabod Crane
Did you originally create that character? - Yes, Washington Irving
Did you play a bureaucrat, an emperor, an android and a burglar? - The late great Ian Holm, in Brazil, Time Bandits, Alien and The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (the flashback scene from Bilbo’s time with Thorin & Co.).

DQ:

European?

IQs:

Were you a Catholic cleric who got a major American university named after you?
Are you a novelist related to a late South American political leader?
Did you play one of the gang in BH90210?

IQs:

1. Are you a female Muslim fencer?
2. Were you in a band called the Iguanas?
3. In The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, are you a Nautilus crew member Nemo refers to as Mr. Mate (though you’d like him to call you something else)?